Re: emacs waiting for external program to exit

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.09.2007 um 10:20 schrieb Leo:

> If I open a .pdf file in dired with evince, Emacs is frozen until that
> program exits.

Can't you put evince into the background? Either use a shell script  
as go-between or use a function for dired-x that was sent to the list  
recently, could be in May or June ... It was about launching an  
external programme in the background.

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